4th Generation Psychological Warfare and The Christian Right: A Discussion with James Scaminaci III

Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Dr. Steven Hassan

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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With the election just a few months away and an unprecedented barrage of psychological warfare being leveled at Americans, as well as people around the world, we decided to reshare this podcast and blog from 2020. It features Dr. James Scaminaci’s expertise on psychological warfare and specifically something called Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW). Understanding psychological warfare is imperative to counter the authoritarian agenda aimed at destabilizing people’s sense of self and understanding of “reality.” Indeed, social media and AI are being used to confuse, disorient, and unduly influence people to extremely simplistic positions of all or nothing and good versus evil. The moderate majority that values facts, science, human rights, and checks and balances of power must stay focused on reality being very complex and rarely simple. Going forward, we must understand and protect ourselves in order to keep American from coming apart. Come join us on this fascinating interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan, and I'm absolutely honored to have as a guest today James Scaminacci
0:12.2	the third, who I've actually credited for teaching me about fourth generation warfare when I was researching the cult of
0:23.2	Trump book. And I've been reading his writings. James, you are a former naval intelligence official.
0:33.7	You got a doctorate in political sociology from Stanford, and it was really revelatory for me to understand William Lynde and his connection with Paul Weirich of the Christian Right, and the whole idea of fourth generation warfare, I can
0:56.4	attempt to explain it, but you're the expert. And I wanted to have you on today to talk about
1:02.4	fourth generation psychological warfare. The last time we did an interview, you correctly
1:09.7	diagnosed January 6th as a military style
1:15.7	who attempt with a lot of distraction, but there was an actual military aspect to that, and you
1:22.6	were spot on.
1:24.3	And then I'd like you to talk about cryptocurrency and its connection with the right wing and its
1:30.6	attempts to undermine our government and freedom everywhere.
1:35.4	James, thank you so much.
1:39.0	Tell us what you think we need to know.
1:43.5	Well, thank you for having me back on the show, Steve.
1:46.1	And congratulations, I guess, on your newly minted Ph.D., right?
1:50.2	Yeah, 2020, December. I got it.
1:53.4	So congratulations on that.
1:55.3	I mean, that's a big milestone.
1:56.8	It's a big validation, if you will, of your work.
2:01.3	Thank you.
2:02.7	So, yeah, you know, fourth generation warfare is a deliberate strategy of the Christian right.
2:12.1	But it's actually started, starts before they enunciate the strategy of fourth generation warfare.
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